figure 3 Spotter Oculi are appended to highrises all over South Kowloon – their sychronised movements trace the path of phantom aircraft descending into the city at regular intervals.
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of the same anxieties about cities growing increasingly unfamiliar.
DC: At the time of this project, I was also interested the theme of obsolescence and this idea of chronophobia – a term coined by Pamela Lee whose research was primarily focused on the prevalent theme of time and conference, Airport Landscape: Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age, discussing a wide range of topics on these aerial landscapes; one of the conference organisers, Sonja Dümpelmann, published Flights of Imagination: Aviation, Landscape, Design, which I am still looking forward to the chance to read.
temporality in 1960s art (Op Art, Land Art). In her research, she claims that there was a collective anxiety about the passage of time that informed most of the art (and I would argue architecture) that emerged during that era. She adds that there was an ‘insistent struggle with the temporal, an effort to either master its passage, still its acceleration, or give measure to its changing conditions’. In a similar manner, I generated a palimpsestual landscape that registered aspects of the past as an alternative to complete
erasure. Perhaps this project was born out
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